# STONECOAL

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4601939
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wayne, WV
- **Operator:** SNR Stonecoal LLC
- **Controller:** David J Stone
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,796
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**David J Stone (0136321) → SNR Stonecoal LLC (0155876) → STONECOAL (4601939)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Vantage Mining Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1990-02-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Vantage Mining Company:** 1990-02-09 through 1991-01-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rex  Fought → Wayne Processing Inc:** 1991-01-14 through 1996-02-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Spartan Mining Company:** 1996-02-05 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Spartan Mining Company:** 2011-06-01 through 2014-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dennis  Johnson → APPALACHIAN MINING & RECLAMATION, LLC:** 2014-01-08 through 2017-08-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Spartan Mining Company:** 2016-07-26 through 2014-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **David J Stone → SNR Stonecoal LLC:** 2017-08-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Spartan Mining Company:** 2018-11-09 through 2014-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601939; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 24
- Interval anomalies: 2
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 32 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 578 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 370 violation rows across the full record; 99 carry an S&S flag and $49,867 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 319 samples:** Occupational health samples 281 coal dust; 27 coal quartz; 11 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 765 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 85 inspection events and 3K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 49.12 — Availability of mine rescue teams.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-49/subpart-B/section-49.12
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **30 CFR 75.350 — Belt air course ventilation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.350
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 32 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2015-04-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-03-27 through 2024-03-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 360 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2020-07-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 281 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2015-03-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 434 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 112 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2017-08-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 85 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2024-03-26; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 59 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 11 rows; 2000-03-30 through 2015-02-27; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 27 rows; 2000-02-14 through 2015-02-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 370 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2020-07-23; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/stonecoal-4601939`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/stonecoal-4601939`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4601939/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4601939/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4601939/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`